Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 125
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cypsiman2Boring as all hell recap. Whoop di doo.
TITLE SCREEN! JOHAN, JIM, AND O'BRIEN VS. THE THREE MASKED KNIGHTS i doubt we'll be getting any 'all for one, one for all' action in this.
So yeah, three simultaneous duels at the same time, with the power and food supply as the stakes. Wait, what happens if one side wins one duel, but loses the other two? I've no idea, and I doubt the writers do either. Really, this whole thing is just an excuse to give more duel time over to the Foreign Students. Over at Johan's duel, The Knight of Impassivity takes his turn, draws a card, and ends it. Since he has seven cards in his hand, he is forced to discard one of them. Watching Johan getting so freaked by this is kind of funny, since while it is obvious that his opponent is planning something with all this nothing, it is still a strategy that consists of sitting there and doing nothing, which can only be viable if you're dueling someone who really sucks. A lot. Johan takes his turn, draws his card, and Impassivity activates the effect of the card he discarded, Silent Pain; when this card is the only card in your graveyard, during the opponent's standby phase destroy every monster they control and inflict 1000 points of damage to them. Amber Mammoth is turned to Amber, Johan takes 1000 points of damage, blah blah blah, Johan summons Topaz Tiger, but Impassivity removes Silent Void in his hand from play; when you have Silent Pain in your graveyard, you can remove this card in your hand from play to destroy one monster your opponent controls. You can only activate this effect on the opponent's turn. So Topaz Tiger goes boom and becomes Topaz. Impassivity's turn, he passes, and Johan is getting his ass kicked by a guy who just sits there and does nothing. That is pathetic. Johan draws, Silent Pain kicks in again, dealing another 1000 damage to Johan, and he also removes Silent Torment from play for another 1000 points of damage, leaving Johan with just 1000 life points left. Wow, that is so impressive. Badly animated reaction shots from the crowd, and over to Jim.
Jim summons Weathering Soldier, which starts with 2000 attack points but loses 600 during the end phase. He attacks and destroys Anchor Knight for 500 points of damage, but Anger activates Anchor Knight's effect, discarding a card from his hand to special summon it back to the field in defense. That ends Jim's turn, so Anger goes next. He switches Anchor Knight back to attack, and activates his trap card, Violent Salvage; when Anchor Knight is on the field, he can return the top three cards in his grave to his hand, though he can't activate their effects. That's okay though, since he'll just be discarding them again for Anchor Knight's effect, dealing another 1800 damage to Jim, and then he attacks and destroys Weathering Knight for another 100 damage, leaving Jim with just 300 life points. More noise from the whiny Peanut Gallery, Napoleon and Rei are thinking about Martin, the zombies are still stupid and mildly annoying, and Demon Martin walks among them. Napoleon tries to discretely make his way back into the school, but Pharaoh notices and rubs itself against Rei's leg, alerting her to the fat troll's efforts. He bolts for it, Pharaoh gives chase, and then Rei runs up to alert the ever oblivious Judai to the situation. I'm not sure why anyone cares what happens to Napoleon or Pharaoh, but apparently we're supposed to. Judai is resistant, but upon being reminded that Napoleon will be turned into a Duel Zombie, he goes with her, and O'Brien realizes that this was all an ingenious plan to divert their attention! Yes, such an ingenious plan, where Demon Martin wastes time and energy creating a distraction when he could have just achieved his goals directly without anyone catching on. So yeah, not ingenious in the least.
Now O'Brien takes his turn, sets a card, and summons Fire Trooper, which then goes away; when summoned, it is sent to the grave to deal 1000 damage to the opponent. This activates the effect of Laugh Fight in Laughter's grave, letting him remove it from play to deal equal damage to O'Brien. O'Brien takes 1000 damage, and then activates Fire Back, discarding a Fire Monster to special summon a Fire Monster from his grave. The monster he discarded was Scattershot, so Laughter takes another 500 damage, and the monster O'Brien special summons is Fire Trooper, which promptly returns to the grave for another 1000 points of damage. And then he activates a second Fire Back, and discards a second Scatter Shot, dealing another 500 points of damage. Laughter then engages in pathetic begging which somehow convinces O'Brien not to finish him with Fire Trooper's effect, and instead bring back Scattershot to his side of the field. O'Brien ends his turn, and Laugher reveals that he intends to use his face-down Burial From A Different Dimension to return his Laugh Bombs back to his grave, which will let him remove them from play again to deal 1500 points of damage to O'Brien and win. He takes his turn, draws, and finds that O'Brien has activated his trap card, and is just walking away. He reads off the effect of Draw Bomb, which activates when the opponent draws a card. Deal 1000 points of damage. Heh, that...was mildly amusing. That's all. TvTropes has this listed as a crowning moment of awesome, which just speaks to epically low standards. So yeahk, O'Brien won without even hardly trying. Woo. However, the Dis-Belt still does its thing on O'Brien. Whatever. Oh, and the fused student/spirit thing is back to normal. Like anyone cares.
O'Brien then tells the others to go ahead and surrender, since these duels are nothing more than a meaningless distraction. Blah blah blah, guess what? The duels continue. What a shock. O'Brien silently calls up the thoroughly useless campus security, and orders them around like he has the authority to do so. Guess what O'Brien? That tiny sliver of credit you just got from me? You just pissed it away.
EYECATCH!
Napoleon's running through the halls, Pharaoh follows, as do Judai and Rei, and Demon Martin walks along elsewhere, and is followed by Amon. Well, back to the thoroughly meaningless, dull, uninteresting, and just plain tedious duels. Jim's turn, he discards Sample Fossil to activate Fossil Inspection, designating a level four warrior monster for Anger to send from his deck to the grave. Anger opts for another Anchor Knight, and now Jim activates Fossil Fusion, removing Weathering Knight in his grave and Anchor Knight in his opponent's grave from play to Fusion Summon Skullpawn with 2000 defense points. Then he plays Time Stream, paying half his life points to sacrifice Skullpawn for Skullknight. He then plays another Time Stream, paying another half of his life points and sacrificing Skullknight for Skullking, with 2800 attack points. He attacks and destroys Anchor Knight for 1300 points of damage, Anchor activates its effect to bring it back in defense, but Jim reveals that when there is a monster on the opponent's side of the field, Skullking can attack again, and it penetrates defense. So Anchor Knight goes boom again, this time for 2200 points of damage, finishing him off exactly. Wow, that was as exciting as watching fossils form. Anger turns back to normal, and not a single fuck was given.
And now over to Johan, who's struggling to overcome his opponent's sit there and do nothing technique. Johan activates Rainbow Ruin, and then summons Sapphrire Pegasus, using its effect to place Ruby Carbuncle in his spell/trap zone. Impassivity activates another Silent Void to destroy Sapphire Pegasus, but Johan just goes ahead and activates Ruby Carbuncle's effect to special summon it back to the field, and then activates its effect to special summon the rest of his Gem Beasts from his spell/trap zone. Impassivity tries to activate a third Silent Void, but Johan reveals that when he has three Gem Beasts in his spell/trap zone, he can activate Rainbow Ruin's effect and send one of them to the grave to negate a spell or trap card. He chooses Topaz Tiger, Silent Void is negated, and Amber Mammoth and Sapphire Pegasus are back on the field. So yeah, Johan attacks directly, he wins, and thus the very short and very boring duels have been brought to their irrelevant conclusion. And I'm still not clear on why Demon Martin bothered with fusing those twits with those inane spirits, what the fuck difference did that make? Badly animated Peanut Gallery cheers inanely, and I don't care.
Now Demon Martin is out in the middle of the desert, something he obviously couldn't have done while everyone was holed up in the gym, blissfully oblivious not only to his movements, but that he was even the villain and not just another victim. Wait...anyway, O'Brien watches over the Power Plant and Amon watches Demon Martin as Napoleon catches up to him...somehow, and asks the boy what the meaning of all this, putting his hands on his arms. Rather personal space violating, don't you think? I mean, it's bad enough that the kid's been possessed by a Demon, now a Troll is touching him? Demon Voice is all "so this is the source of the darkness in your heart.", and then Judai and Rei catch up. Oh, and Pharaoh too. Judai also demands to know what the fuck, and the Demon is really excited to see Judai, but it is not time yet...Blah blah blah, Judai tries to grab Matin, but Napoleon intervenes, saying he won't let Judai lay a hand on his son!!!!! And yes, that was worth five exclamation points, because this means that Napoleon has bred, and such a thought is five exclamation points worth of horror. Judai is appropriately shocked, and rather then bring up the fact that there is not a single woman on the planet who would even sleep with Napoleon for a single night, Rei points out that Martin's family name is Kannou, not...whatever the hell Napoleon's is, probably Bonaparte. Napoleon says that's because Martin is in his ex-wife's custody, and I refuse to believe that Napoleon could get anyone to marry him. At all. Not even with the aid of drugs. Demon Martin, as disgusted by this bullshit as I am, grabs napoleon by the throat with his Demon Arm. Blah blah blah, this is where Demon Martin was headed to begin with, mildly annoying Duel Zombies approach, and Demon Martin says Judai should be pleased.
Demon Arm begins to glow with Duel Energy, Demon Martin releases Napoleon, and he punches the ground. I'm sure this is supposed to be all kinds of epic and terrifying, given the background music and everything, but given how trite and cliche the whole "punching the ground" bit is to begin with...no, it is not. But suddenly, a fissure appears in the ground, and seven pillars rise up, and you've got to be fucking kidding me, Demon Martin was after those fucking Egyptian God Card knockoffs? You're telling me that the demon had enough power to selectively pull huge chunks of an entire island into another dimension, but it didn't have enough to take those pieces of shit? Oh, and then Daitokuji's soul comes out of Pharaoh to helpfully remind the audience of what the Legendary Demon Cards are, and explain the current situation. Napoleon and Rei are mildy shocked when Daitokuji appears, exposition is provided, and then Demon Martin forces Daitokuji back into Pharaoh's belly. Judai demands to know why Demon Martin is after the Legendary Demon Cards, Demon Martin laughs, and a pointless shot reminding us of how epically lazy the designs for the Legendary Demon Cards are. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Say, you know what's been done to death by this point? Judai vs. Manjoume! Oh, but here's something different, Amon confronts Demon Martin. EPISODE TITLE, JUDAI VS. MANJOUME - DARK SWORD THE DRAGON KNIGHT card of the week is skullking, never released.
Like I said, one mildly amusing moment, but the rest is trash.
TITLE SCREEN! JOHAN, JIM, AND O'BRIEN VS. THE THREE MASKED KNIGHTS i doubt we'll be getting any 'all for one, one for all' action in this.
So yeah, three simultaneous duels at the same time, with the power and food supply as the stakes. Wait, what happens if one side wins one duel, but loses the other two? I've no idea, and I doubt the writers do either. Really, this whole thing is just an excuse to give more duel time over to the Foreign Students. Over at Johan's duel, The Knight of Impassivity takes his turn, draws a card, and ends it. Since he has seven cards in his hand, he is forced to discard one of them. Watching Johan getting so freaked by this is kind of funny, since while it is obvious that his opponent is planning something with all this nothing, it is still a strategy that consists of sitting there and doing nothing, which can only be viable if you're dueling someone who really sucks. A lot. Johan takes his turn, draws his card, and Impassivity activates the effect of the card he discarded, Silent Pain; when this card is the only card in your graveyard, during the opponent's standby phase destroy every monster they control and inflict 1000 points of damage to them. Amber Mammoth is turned to Amber, Johan takes 1000 points of damage, blah blah blah, Johan summons Topaz Tiger, but Impassivity removes Silent Void in his hand from play; when you have Silent Pain in your graveyard, you can remove this card in your hand from play to destroy one monster your opponent controls. You can only activate this effect on the opponent's turn. So Topaz Tiger goes boom and becomes Topaz. Impassivity's turn, he passes, and Johan is getting his ass kicked by a guy who just sits there and does nothing. That is pathetic. Johan draws, Silent Pain kicks in again, dealing another 1000 damage to Johan, and he also removes Silent Torment from play for another 1000 points of damage, leaving Johan with just 1000 life points left. Wow, that is so impressive. Badly animated reaction shots from the crowd, and over to Jim.
Jim summons Weathering Soldier, which starts with 2000 attack points but loses 600 during the end phase. He attacks and destroys Anchor Knight for 500 points of damage, but Anger activates Anchor Knight's effect, discarding a card from his hand to special summon it back to the field in defense. That ends Jim's turn, so Anger goes next. He switches Anchor Knight back to attack, and activates his trap card, Violent Salvage; when Anchor Knight is on the field, he can return the top three cards in his grave to his hand, though he can't activate their effects. That's okay though, since he'll just be discarding them again for Anchor Knight's effect, dealing another 1800 damage to Jim, and then he attacks and destroys Weathering Knight for another 100 damage, leaving Jim with just 300 life points. More noise from the whiny Peanut Gallery, Napoleon and Rei are thinking about Martin, the zombies are still stupid and mildly annoying, and Demon Martin walks among them. Napoleon tries to discretely make his way back into the school, but Pharaoh notices and rubs itself against Rei's leg, alerting her to the fat troll's efforts. He bolts for it, Pharaoh gives chase, and then Rei runs up to alert the ever oblivious Judai to the situation. I'm not sure why anyone cares what happens to Napoleon or Pharaoh, but apparently we're supposed to. Judai is resistant, but upon being reminded that Napoleon will be turned into a Duel Zombie, he goes with her, and O'Brien realizes that this was all an ingenious plan to divert their attention! Yes, such an ingenious plan, where Demon Martin wastes time and energy creating a distraction when he could have just achieved his goals directly without anyone catching on. So yeah, not ingenious in the least.
Now O'Brien takes his turn, sets a card, and summons Fire Trooper, which then goes away; when summoned, it is sent to the grave to deal 1000 damage to the opponent. This activates the effect of Laugh Fight in Laughter's grave, letting him remove it from play to deal equal damage to O'Brien. O'Brien takes 1000 damage, and then activates Fire Back, discarding a Fire Monster to special summon a Fire Monster from his grave. The monster he discarded was Scattershot, so Laughter takes another 500 damage, and the monster O'Brien special summons is Fire Trooper, which promptly returns to the grave for another 1000 points of damage. And then he activates a second Fire Back, and discards a second Scatter Shot, dealing another 500 points of damage. Laughter then engages in pathetic begging which somehow convinces O'Brien not to finish him with Fire Trooper's effect, and instead bring back Scattershot to his side of the field. O'Brien ends his turn, and Laugher reveals that he intends to use his face-down Burial From A Different Dimension to return his Laugh Bombs back to his grave, which will let him remove them from play again to deal 1500 points of damage to O'Brien and win. He takes his turn, draws, and finds that O'Brien has activated his trap card, and is just walking away. He reads off the effect of Draw Bomb, which activates when the opponent draws a card. Deal 1000 points of damage. Heh, that...was mildly amusing. That's all. TvTropes has this listed as a crowning moment of awesome, which just speaks to epically low standards. So yeahk, O'Brien won without even hardly trying. Woo. However, the Dis-Belt still does its thing on O'Brien. Whatever. Oh, and the fused student/spirit thing is back to normal. Like anyone cares.
O'Brien then tells the others to go ahead and surrender, since these duels are nothing more than a meaningless distraction. Blah blah blah, guess what? The duels continue. What a shock. O'Brien silently calls up the thoroughly useless campus security, and orders them around like he has the authority to do so. Guess what O'Brien? That tiny sliver of credit you just got from me? You just pissed it away.
EYECATCH!
Napoleon's running through the halls, Pharaoh follows, as do Judai and Rei, and Demon Martin walks along elsewhere, and is followed by Amon. Well, back to the thoroughly meaningless, dull, uninteresting, and just plain tedious duels. Jim's turn, he discards Sample Fossil to activate Fossil Inspection, designating a level four warrior monster for Anger to send from his deck to the grave. Anger opts for another Anchor Knight, and now Jim activates Fossil Fusion, removing Weathering Knight in his grave and Anchor Knight in his opponent's grave from play to Fusion Summon Skullpawn with 2000 defense points. Then he plays Time Stream, paying half his life points to sacrifice Skullpawn for Skullknight. He then plays another Time Stream, paying another half of his life points and sacrificing Skullknight for Skullking, with 2800 attack points. He attacks and destroys Anchor Knight for 1300 points of damage, Anchor activates its effect to bring it back in defense, but Jim reveals that when there is a monster on the opponent's side of the field, Skullking can attack again, and it penetrates defense. So Anchor Knight goes boom again, this time for 2200 points of damage, finishing him off exactly. Wow, that was as exciting as watching fossils form. Anger turns back to normal, and not a single fuck was given.
And now over to Johan, who's struggling to overcome his opponent's sit there and do nothing technique. Johan activates Rainbow Ruin, and then summons Sapphrire Pegasus, using its effect to place Ruby Carbuncle in his spell/trap zone. Impassivity activates another Silent Void to destroy Sapphire Pegasus, but Johan just goes ahead and activates Ruby Carbuncle's effect to special summon it back to the field, and then activates its effect to special summon the rest of his Gem Beasts from his spell/trap zone. Impassivity tries to activate a third Silent Void, but Johan reveals that when he has three Gem Beasts in his spell/trap zone, he can activate Rainbow Ruin's effect and send one of them to the grave to negate a spell or trap card. He chooses Topaz Tiger, Silent Void is negated, and Amber Mammoth and Sapphire Pegasus are back on the field. So yeah, Johan attacks directly, he wins, and thus the very short and very boring duels have been brought to their irrelevant conclusion. And I'm still not clear on why Demon Martin bothered with fusing those twits with those inane spirits, what the fuck difference did that make? Badly animated Peanut Gallery cheers inanely, and I don't care.
Now Demon Martin is out in the middle of the desert, something he obviously couldn't have done while everyone was holed up in the gym, blissfully oblivious not only to his movements, but that he was even the villain and not just another victim. Wait...anyway, O'Brien watches over the Power Plant and Amon watches Demon Martin as Napoleon catches up to him...somehow, and asks the boy what the meaning of all this, putting his hands on his arms. Rather personal space violating, don't you think? I mean, it's bad enough that the kid's been possessed by a Demon, now a Troll is touching him? Demon Voice is all "so this is the source of the darkness in your heart.", and then Judai and Rei catch up. Oh, and Pharaoh too. Judai also demands to know what the fuck, and the Demon is really excited to see Judai, but it is not time yet...Blah blah blah, Judai tries to grab Matin, but Napoleon intervenes, saying he won't let Judai lay a hand on his son!!!!! And yes, that was worth five exclamation points, because this means that Napoleon has bred, and such a thought is five exclamation points worth of horror. Judai is appropriately shocked, and rather then bring up the fact that there is not a single woman on the planet who would even sleep with Napoleon for a single night, Rei points out that Martin's family name is Kannou, not...whatever the hell Napoleon's is, probably Bonaparte. Napoleon says that's because Martin is in his ex-wife's custody, and I refuse to believe that Napoleon could get anyone to marry him. At all. Not even with the aid of drugs. Demon Martin, as disgusted by this bullshit as I am, grabs napoleon by the throat with his Demon Arm. Blah blah blah, this is where Demon Martin was headed to begin with, mildly annoying Duel Zombies approach, and Demon Martin says Judai should be pleased.
Demon Arm begins to glow with Duel Energy, Demon Martin releases Napoleon, and he punches the ground. I'm sure this is supposed to be all kinds of epic and terrifying, given the background music and everything, but given how trite and cliche the whole "punching the ground" bit is to begin with...no, it is not. But suddenly, a fissure appears in the ground, and seven pillars rise up, and you've got to be fucking kidding me, Demon Martin was after those fucking Egyptian God Card knockoffs? You're telling me that the demon had enough power to selectively pull huge chunks of an entire island into another dimension, but it didn't have enough to take those pieces of shit? Oh, and then Daitokuji's soul comes out of Pharaoh to helpfully remind the audience of what the Legendary Demon Cards are, and explain the current situation. Napoleon and Rei are mildy shocked when Daitokuji appears, exposition is provided, and then Demon Martin forces Daitokuji back into Pharaoh's belly. Judai demands to know why Demon Martin is after the Legendary Demon Cards, Demon Martin laughs, and a pointless shot reminding us of how epically lazy the designs for the Legendary Demon Cards are. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Say, you know what's been done to death by this point? Judai vs. Manjoume! Oh, but here's something different, Amon confronts Demon Martin. EPISODE TITLE, JUDAI VS. MANJOUME - DARK SWORD THE DRAGON KNIGHT card of the week is skullking, never released.
Like I said, one mildly amusing moment, but the rest is trash.
